No we haven’t gone live yet – I’m still developing the new site and haven’t got around to doing another import test yet. I’ve got plenty of tasks to complete before I carry on with the forum so I’ll be using an updated version of bbpress by that time I’d imagine. When you say you’ve started adding support for this, are you talking about the redirects in particular?
Cheers
@leonyipa ok great on the youtube video width , at least the code is doing something
there is probably another function on the web that i can direct you to if i find something that works on both height and width, so wait til i come back with a function that works for both
if i give you a new function delete the old one
paste codes into a child themes functions.php and style.css so that the code wont disappear during theme upgrades
and dont edit the core files inside of bbpress
copy those files into your child theme so you can be safe on bbpress plugin upgrades
so copy bbpress.css to your child theme, if you dont have a child theme , make one they are great for customizing your bbpress install
for more about customizing bbpress with css , plugins, and functions read this
Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 2
Hello,
Ive just imported quite a large Vbulletin3 forum to bbPress using the built-in importer and it doesnt seem to have imported any replies,
The threads and users moved over ok but there are no replies listed in bbPress.
I ran the repair options after the import one by one.
Wondered if anyone had any ideas ?
Oh…. And you should also be able to map the Anonymous/Deleted phpBB users topics and replies also via those same mappings, I’ve just finished adding support for this with phpBB and bbPress around an hour ago.
I’ll come back tomorrow and show you the SQL query for that, for now it’s late here and I’m done for the night, anything else I will look at tomorrow 🙂
You wrote in your previous post:
Sure thing, I’ll see what I can dig out. I’m going to be running the import a few more times over the coming weeks anyway because I need to make sure that I have the process down to a t before we decide to go live.
Does this mean you have now gone live and a ‘few more imports’ has already happened and ‘coming weeks’ is time flies when having fun?
You should find in your wp_postmeta table primarily two reference meta keys, _bbp_old_forum_id and _bbp_old_topic_id
In the case below the new forum ID in wp_posts is 8789 for the old phpBB forum ID 53 and the new topic id in in wp_posts is 8803 for the old phpBB topic id 25743
meta_id post_id meta_key meta_value
57514 8789 _bbp_old_forum_id 53
57626 8803 _bbp_old_topic_id 25743
With the above data in hand you should be able to map all your old phpBB forums and topic ID’s to the new bbPress forum and topic ID’s.
hi, sorry for the late reply.
I tried both ways:
1) changing the Participant role directly
// Participant/Default
case bbp_get_participant_role() :
default :
$caps = array(
// Primary caps
‘spectate’ => true,
‘participate’ => true,
// Forum caps
‘read_private_forums’ => true,
// Topic caps
‘publish_topics’ => true,
‘edit_topics’ => true,
‘delete_topics’ => true,
// Reply caps
‘publish_replies’ => true,
‘edit_replies’ => true,
‘delete_replies’ => true,
// Topic tag caps
‘assign_topic_tags’ => true,
);
break;
}
after I changed it, nothing happened :/
and
2) making custom role, but it says:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘roles’ (T_STRING), expecting ‘(‘ in /home/gleam/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/capabilities.php on line 216
216: function add_new roles( $bbp_roles )
217: {
@netweb – I’m happy to give it a try, but the problem(s) I think I’ll face are:
1) The ID’s for the Forums, Topics and Replies are all different now that I’ve imported them into bbPress. This is because we’ve had to migrate a whole site over too which meant that around 5000 ID’s were already taken by other posts.
2) The migrated data for bbPress has 68 Forums, 71,006 Topics, and 564,453 Replies so it’s going to be a big job to set up redirects for these individually.
What I was thinking of doing, was grabbing the migration helper data, and writing a PHP script that would look up these old forum and topic ID’s and redirect to the correct place without me having to input any manual redirects.
You mention that if there is no ‘wp_bbp_converter_translator’ table, then it uses the built in WordPress tables – do you know which ones I should be looking in? I’d presume it to be wp_postmeta or something for these particular bits?
I also found the code is in
/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css
I directly change the number of
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content img,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content img {
max-width: 100%;
}
However, no matter what number I change to, it still doesn’t work.
The width of the image still remain 100%
Thanks very much @Robkk!!
The youtube video worked!!! I have been looking for the solution for a long time, thanks!
The maximum width of youtube video works really well!!
However, when I change the code to height, it doesn’t work 🙁
Also for the image, I edited the css
because I am using BBPress Default Theme, it doesn’t have a .css and tell me to edit function.php instead
And I paste the code into: /public_html/wp-content/themes/bp-default/functions.php
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content img, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content img {
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
but no matter what I change the number, it is still set to 100%.
Did I add the code to the wrong place? or it’s not working?
Hi
The problem is that there is no way to upgrade to the new version of the bbPress, so it has to work as it is. Every file in the bb template have got get_header(); and there is include wp-load.php in the bb-config.php. Title is fine, but there is no output from the wp_head(). I found that I should replace wp-load with the wp-blog-header. I did that, but wp_head() is still empty. Somebody mentioned that get_header() should be in bb-config.php. I put it in there and it works. Kind of. The function wp_head() finally echoes everything, but the title is empty. No wonder, there are no bb_ and is_ functions that would do something. So, is there a way to get wp_head working the right way?
Hi! I want to close some of my topics when get to 20 replies. I found this: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/auto-close-topics/
But can I specific by topic id which ones to close when they reach that 20 reply limit?
Thanks!
@iblifefordummies the links you added go to a closed topic
bbpress adds styling to closed topics
hardly seeing it is kind of suppose to happen
Currently, the font color is nearly the same as the background, making it extremely hard to see. I don’t know CSS well enough to be able to change it myself, so I could and would appreciate some help!
Wordpress version: Latest
BBPress version: 2.5.4
Link to where it shows the problem:
http://www.iblifefordummies.com/forum/ib-life-for-dummies/news-and-announcements/
and
http://www.iblifefordummies.com/topic/welcome-to-the-iblfd-forums/
try all of these
span.bbp-admin-links a {
color: #404040;
}
div.bbp-reply-header span.bbp-admin-links a {
color: #404040;
}
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header span.bbp-admin-links a {
color: #404040;
}
The current phpBB importer only imports ‘extra’ user fields from the phpbb_users table.
The following custom profile fields are what is currently imported, we store these in wp_usermeta
// Store ICQ (Stored in usermeta)
'from_fieldname' => 'user_icq',
// Store MSN (Stored in usermeta)
'from_fieldname' => 'user_msnm',
// Store Jabber
'from_fieldname' => 'user_jabber',
// Store Occupation (Stored in usermeta)
'from_fieldname' => 'user_occ',
// Store Interests (Stored in usermeta)
'from_fieldname' => 'user_interests',
// Store Signature (Stored in usermeta)
'from_fieldname' => 'user_sig',
// Store Location (Stored in usermeta)
'from_fieldname' => 'user_from',
// Store Avatar Filename (Stored in usermeta)
'from_fieldname' => 'user_avatar',
The current implementation needs to explicitly named fields to import them, so having the import support custom named fields is not available to be used at this time, one day hopefully.
With that said, with a list of fields names and the tables the fields are stored in these can easily be added to a customized phpBB importer.
As to where to send these fields, if you are using BuddyPress, XProfile would be the ideal place to have these. Our importer doesn’t handle this though, again, maybe one day we can add something in BuddyPress to import ‘extra’ profile fields from bbPress. Probably the key thing here is we can get all your phpBB profile fields imported into wp_usermeta and then with a bit of MySQL these could be copied over to the BuddyPress XProfile table and everything would be awesome. 🙂
EDIT: As all I’ve been doing the past ~5 days is working on the importers we do actually store the old phpBB user_id so mapping the old users after an import back to the old phpBB database should also not be an issue once bbPress 2.6 is released 🙂
Hi Robin. I made another improvement and added some comments. I noticed that, no matter where I inserted the shortcode, the topics displayed at the top of the content. After some searching I learned why – functions need to return a string. So I found an easy wordpress solution. I also simplified the shortcode, and removed the add_action line at the bottom as it was not doing anything. Here is the updated code:
add_shortcode( 'recent-bbpress-topics', 'recent_bbpress_topics' );
// Add Recent Topics to BBPress from separate site within WP Multisite
function recent_bbpress_topics($attr) {
//Switch to the blog where the bbpress topics are located
switch_to_blog($attr['id']);
//this, along with $response variable below, allows for display within content - without these, shortcode will display topics at top of content
ob_start();
if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'author' => 0, 'show_stickies' => false, 'order' => 'DESC', 'post_parent' => 'any', 'posts_per_page' => 9 ) ) ) { ?>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'topics' );
//restore the current blog to maintain formatting
restore_current_blog();
}
//this, along with ob_start(); above, allows for display within content, instead of at the top of the content/page
$response = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $response;
}
not sure but you probably have to set a max width for oembed embeds
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-set-oembed-max-width-in-wordpress-3-5-with-content_width/
add the code to your functions.php in your child theme.
change 600 to whatever number you want as the width, im sure you could copy the function to width to height and also do the height to.
if the code doesnt work , look at the comments and try that user posted code. (i havent tried any of these codes so i dont know if they work really, if they dont just delete the function from your child functions.php)
for images (using img quicktag) i think you can use css
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content img, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content img {
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
for images (posted by link using oembed , imgur , flickr picture, instagram picture) the oembed code that i linked to should do the same for these.
thanks,
no, what I mean is setting a stand size for ALL embed youtube videos in BBPress
Hi,
I run a couple of different bbpress installations, of course they’re both up-to-date (2.5.4)
I noticed that on both installations, when you trash a topic, and you try to “un-trashit” you receive a nonce error.
I’m not sure if this issue depends on my personal configuration, but of course i disabled all other plugins and used a fresh wp install.
Being a PHP developer I digged inside the core files of bbpress and I noticed that in includes/topics.php on line 818 the nonce is generated with
wp_nonce_url( add_query_arg( array( '_wp_http_referer' => add_query_arg( array( 'post_type' => bbp_get_topic_post_type() ), admin_url( 'edit.php' ) ) ), admin_url( sprintf( $post_type_object->_edit_link . '&action=untrash', $topic->ID ) ) ), 'untrash-' . $topic->post_type . '_' . $topic->ID )
so the “sent” nonce is basically untrash-topic_<ID>, while the nonce check on wordpress (on post.php line 265 is:
check_admin_referer('untrash-post_' . $post_id);
or basically untrash-post_<ID>.
Can anyone tell me if other people found out a similar issue untrashing topics or is it just me? Thanks in advance for your support 🙂
if it’s not working try
color: #404040 !important;
if bbpress loads after your theme, then it’ll overwrite changes made in your css, ie revert them back
yes, I’ve started a plugin that does some different shortcodes, and at the moment one that does just that is all that’s in there
bbp additional shortcodes
Does the importer handle the custom profile fields in phpbb3, sepcifically the functionality in version 3.10+? Phpbb3 now allows admins to create new custom profile fields, beyond the ones listed as imported kept in phpbb3_users. There are at least 4 related tables, starting with <phpbb3_profile_fields…>.
Is it correct to think these custom profile fields should go into BuddyPress xprofile fields, or should they go into wp_meta (?) during bbpress import? If you happen to know, is there a way to import phpbb3 custom profile fields into BuddyPress if that is the appropriate target?
Thanks, Mike
Is there a way for me to redirect the submit button on the bbp-topic-form to an email address (like mailto:xys@whatever.com) rather than have it post a thread? I want people to be able to use the functionality of bbpress to add html and insert code if needed but want it to function more like a contact form.
Any suggestions are appreciated
While adjusting the topics/reply color for my site, I seem to run into a bit of a snag with trying to change the admin links coloring. I’m using Catch Evolution for a theme and as such there is a area in options to put custom css code. This is what I have thus far:
” #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header, #bbpress-forums a.bbp-admin-links { color: #404040; }
”
I do plan on having admin links a different color, I just tossed it in there to test to make sure it’s correct/changes.
